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Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

Helluva posted:

What kind of a device was it? I want to get a hold of whatever it is for looong years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa7635syI-Y

It's not in my bidding history anymore on the auction site i was using and I really am struggling with mr google.

# ¿ Jan 3, 2024 13:53

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# ¿ May 17, 2024 20:12

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

Picked up one of these beauties today, GE Superadio 2. They are famous for their long distance AM reception

Went to buy batteries for it, but I bought C cells instead of D cells

Humphreys suggested scrunched up foil.

When I first turned it on the local community radio station was just at the beginning of their 3 hour long Prog Rock program, so it's been put to use playing some of the worst music i've ever heard in my life (but in a guilty pleasure sort of way).

I've read elsewhere to replace the electrolytic capacitors so i'll do that.

I'm mad cos I want to hear the progrock!

Armacham posted:

Isn't it great how machine learning and generative AI has ruined google

It's amazing how honestly terrible it's gotten. I've been trying DuckDuckGo for some stuff lately and it's slightly better. Pressing start button and typing in the program i wanna run is the best way to invoke Edge and NOT a local program that I saw when I half typed the word.

# ¿ Jan 4, 2024 12:04

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

LimaBiker posted:

Finally, make sure that the balls of aluminium foil don't start shorting out against each other. Alkaline batteries won't catch fire, but they definitely can vent their electrolyte when short circuited for long enough. If they ever do, clean up with vinegar.

I told them that fix as a temporary solution. Thanks for your concern-trolling.

# ¿ Jan 4, 2024 12:30

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

LOL Muse.... gotta go that. Cos it goes with the MUSE Laserdisc Players so MUST be the best!

# ¿ Jan 4, 2024 12:45

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

I didn't really see it as negativity, just a lot of snark and hamming it up a bit.

EDIT:

We all love demoscene stuff right?

Title says it all
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mes4yarC5ws

Humphreys has a new favorite as of 07:46 on Jan 18, 2024

# ¿ Jan 18, 2024 07:35

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

lobsterminator posted:

Bad Apple has nothing on State of the Art.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89wq5EoXy-0

Love that one. I think the appeal of Bad Apple is it's more of a backport to see how well various systems can play it. Star of the Art is time period bleeding edge example of what they could come up with.

# ¿ Jan 18, 2024 16:17

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

The Wurst Poster posted:

Some BBSs actually run off of VoIP. You aren't going to get a solid connection over 14400 but any decent BBS is built to be usable at lower speeds. There are carriers that provide a SIP trunk that will give you a number with multiple channels. Voip.ms and voipvoip.com are ones I've used that are modem friendly.

It sure is.

I really should just make a longer video with a full explanation. Maybe even show ISDN BRI in action.

I know people that want a longer video showing it off.

(me)

# ¿ Jan 31, 2024 07:31

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

EVIL Gibson posted:

Let me say one thing, you can design without putting in all the elegance and finesse of a CAD program. Here's a list of tips.

build using more simpler applications that work on a level below CAD. Applications were you don't need to know the weird words of "chamfer", "NURBS", or "Viewport". I use the built in app 3d modelling program from Microsoft called "3d Builder". (https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9WZDNCRFJ3T6?hl=en-us&gl=US) which is on the level of legos, a bunch of shapes, and lots of boolean subtracting and adding.

just straight up frankenstein the bitch. Goto places like printables.com, thingiverse.com, and yeggi.com (great search engine for all stl places) and instead of looking for the perfect reproduction, build your remote cover bit by bit. Get the top cover seashell thing done and make sure it fits over. Get that small metal clip from another remote and scale it down to your dimensions. You basically turn your project into smaller projects trying to replace each of the features one by one.

You definetly do not need steel replacements. You can replace it a plastic part that is just a bit thicker and printed at the correct angle*. You use a filament like PETG (can even get it in metal colored) which had the benefits of flexibility and strength. To make it less flexible to latch better, you make it thicker while losing none of the strength.

*As an example, I made this replacement for a too-expensive mouse and made it out of one piece instead of the aluminum and plastic pieces

I made a few thousand dollars rapid prototyping a safety device for a drilling company that saved lives using Microsoft 3D Builder. It's been a decade since I used anything Autodesk (was trained in Maya, but did 5 yuears in production with 3DS Max).

# ¿ Feb 5, 2024 08:09

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

3D Megadoodoo posted:

Took me a while to figure out what was going on with this:

Thats ok, we all have days we can't put on two of the same shoes.

# ¿ Feb 5, 2024 14:16

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

Laserjet 4P posted:

My camcorder story is that I got an SD Canon in tyool 2008 or so that had shittier video in a stupid .mod format that is just renamed mpeg I think and it just broke after 3 years of use.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvzwCPoXclQ

Now that was the poo poo.

All camcorder footage from the late 80s is a special kind of garbage though. I was envious of my uncle who had one which had stop motion functionality and I just dreamt about what I could do with that and my LEGO.

Before we went to HD with Sonys, that Panasonic was THE camera for our production department. Cheap, lightweight, easy to use, fairly robust. King of the 'good enough'.

# ¿ Feb 7, 2024 07:19

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

Beve Stuscemi posted:

Speaking of ROM chips, what is the easy way to dump things like BIOS chips and things like the above mentioned PROM? Ideally I'm looking for some manner of USB device that can dump the contents of chips out to a modern computer

I've recently come to discover that I might have a few ROM chips and the like that just arent dumped in the wild.

Chip-wise, things like this:

The EPROM is either a 27c128 or 27c156

Make your own programmer:
https://github.com/walhi/arduino_eprom27_programmer

Desert Bus posted:

Paging Humphreys

I've been busy dumping and preserving some other devices lately.

# ¿ Feb 14, 2024 08:32

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

I found an extremely boomer thing at Vinnies:

# ¿ Feb 19, 2024 08:39

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

By popular demand posted:

I wonder how many of the links are still working.

So what you're saying is that I should go back and get it?

# ¿ Feb 19, 2024 09:31

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

Fil5000 posted:

I guarantee about two thousand people have already sent that to him and a puppet will be sarcastic about it in aboht four videos time

(I respect techmoan for both his enthusiasm for weird old tech and his determination to be a grumpy old bugger)

I miss the snarky puppets.

# ¿ Mar 24, 2024 13:53